Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rainmaker Solutions Inc. is managing 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different official. The involvement of 3 distinct art units further shows that the company's current prosecution workload is spread across three separate technical divisions at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This means that the workload is evenly split, with each of the 3 distinct examiners handling 1 of the 3 pending office actions. For practitioners, this distribution requires a versatile strategy that can address the specific standards of 3 distinct art units and the individual perspectives of three different examiners. The data reflects a highly diversified prosecution landscape for the company's current patenting activities in the medical devices and mechanical engineering sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 1 | 56.5% | +22.8% |
| TRAN, THANG DUC | 1 | 76.2% | +23.2% |
| OSTRUP, CLINTON T | 1 | 48.0% | +38.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17942175 | GAS FLOW DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH MAGNETIC COUPLING ASSEMBLY AND MAGNETIC COUPLING ASSEMBLY THEREFOR | OSTRUP, CLINTON T | 265d overdue |
| 18676393 | HYDRATION SYSTEM AND COMPONENTS THEREOF | TRAN, THANG DUC | 44d overdue |
| 18781759 | HYDRATION SYSTEM AND COMPONENTS THEREOF | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 1 |
| 2686 | 1 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18781759 | HYDRATION SYSTEM AND COMPONENTS THEREOF | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 3734 | §102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18676393 | HYDRATION SYSTEM AND COMPONENTS THEREOF | TRAN, THANG DUC | 2686 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 17942175 | GAS FLOW DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH MAGNETIC COUPLING ASSEMBLY AND MAGNETIC COUPLING ASSEMBLY THEREFOR | OSTRUP, CLINTON T | 3732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 265d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
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